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The above photo is the result of a team building activity that one of my people led for our team this past week. As previously discussed in some of my previous posts, making time for team development is important and easy to do. I make a point to incorporate time each week for team development … Continue reading Example Team Building Activity
You’ve worked hard and earned your way into a management position or you become an entrepreneur and start your own business. You suddenly find yourself surrounded by a team of people older than you, more experienced than you, and/or more technically skilled than you in specific skills. How do you lead people who know more … Continue reading How to Lead a Team of People who are Older and More Experienced than You
For the sake of this thought, just assume you’re a manager and you’re running your weekly meeting with your staff. You’ve constructed your agenda of items that you want to cover, so that you can get people moving in the right direction. You brief all the tasks that your team needs to complete this coming … Continue reading Who’s in Charge? – How to Effectively Delegate Work
Leading people is about more than just completing the job. As leaders, we must priorize helping our people reach their full potential. People aren’t meant to be static - people want to improve, grow, and achieve mastery and autonomy over their work. People want to serve a higher purpose. As leaders within any organization, it … Continue reading Why You Should Spend at Least 1 Hour a Week Developing Your Team
Leaders and managers in all fields use time pressure to push their people toward completing goals and benchmarks quickly. We set deadlines, daily priorities, and sometimes we demand for things be completed now. Often when we spring short-fuzed deadlines and demand tasks be completed immediately. Resulting in either poorly developed products or mishaps. Depending on … Continue reading How to Effectively Set Deadlines, While Avoiding the Negative Impacts of Time Pressure
In my previous post about giving feedback to your employees, I promised to post an example feedback that I gave to one of my employees. So, here it is: Areas of Excellence: -Performance. For a guy straight out of the school, your maturity surprised me. Within 3 months of working here, you assumed all responsibilities … Continue reading Example Employee Feedback Sheet
One of the most important activities that you can do as a leader is spend time engaging with your team and providing feedback and counsel on their work and performance. I personally see counseling/performance feedback as among the highest responsibilities of a leader because it is the means by which we develop our people and … Continue reading A Simple Way To Do Performance Feedback/Coaching
If you have ever been on a team or in a leadership position, you know that getting people to care about their work or the group's direction isn't always easy or simple. This article is about how to motivate other people, create team consensus, and set up an environment where your team willingly and enthusiastically … Continue reading 3 Ways to Motivate Your Team
There are many factors that drive people to do the things that we do and, at points in our lives, we don't even realize what is driving us. We can live life in a haze, being told what to do, being driven by someone else's will or by our most base impulses. If you've felt … Continue reading How to Build Intrinsic Motivation
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